“He couldn’t see what was going on with the lights. He thought he was being heckled. He was playing with them from the stage for a second. And it was like, ‘No, no, no. We need you!’ He realized there was an issue, and he came over. It was a moment where time stands still. Someone was having a crisis. There was a hush over the room.”

According to Holmberg, the audience member was having some kind of seizure. As Jeong looked after her, an EMT who had been watching the show came over to help until paramedics arrive.

Once the woman was taken care of, Jeong hopped back on stage and within minutes was able to finish his set and get the tensed-up audience laughing once more. Not only that, but the woman who had been having the seizure was back on her feet by the end of the show.

It may seem too lucky to be true, but the Hangover star’s heroic gestures weren’t part of his act – though he no longer practices, Jeong graduated with a medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine in 1995. After starring on the ABC show “Dr. Ken”, he gave up his medical career to pursue acting.

“And he was brilliant,” Holmberg says. “He’s a very funny man but you were able to see a side of him that’s very compassionate. You don’t often see that in comedians.”